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No. 30 of 1915.
Fee to be paid for licence.
Duration of licence.
Giving of notice of contract with emigrant to Secretary for Chinese Affairs and Emigration Officer. Giving of contract ticket for passage.
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Tenth Schedule.
Production to Secretary for Chinese Affairs of chartering ship for carrying emigrants.
ASIATIC EMIGRATION.
to the Secretary for Chinese Affairs, and such forfeiture shall be exclusive and independent of any other punishment which may be inflicted upon such offender under the provisions of this Ordinance.
33. Every person obtaining such licence as aforesaid shall pay to the Secretary for Chinese Affairs a fee of two hundred dollars, or where the duration of the licence is short such reduced fee as the Governor in Council may authorise.
34. Such licence shall continue in force until the 31st day of December in the year in which such licence is granted, and for fourteen days afterwards, unless sooner forfeited as herein before mentioned.
35. Every passage broker who contracts with any intending emigrant for a passage in any ship shall forthwith give notice in writing to the Secretary for Chinese Affairs and to the Emigration Officer of every such contract, specifying the name, age, and sex of such emigrant and the name of such ship.
36 (1) Every passage broker who receives money from any emigrant for or in respect of a passage in any emigrant ship proceeding on any voyage shall give to such emigrant a passage ticket, under the hand of such passage broker and stamped with his seal or trade mark.
(2) Every such ticket shall be printed in a plain and legible type, according to the form in the Tenth Schedule, and shall be accompanied with a translation thereof in the Chinese language, in plain and legible characters.
37. Every passage broker, before he receives or takes any money on account of any passage or for the sale or letting of the whole or any part of the accommodation of or in any certificate of such ship, shall produce to the Secretary for Chinese Affairs the certificate of the master or owner of the ship in respect of which a passage has been taken or the accommodation in which has been so sold or let, to the effect that such ship has been chartered for the purpose of carrying emigrants, and that such passage broker is authorised to receive payment for such passage or for the sale or letting of the accommodation in such ship; and such certificate shall be filed in the office of the Secretary for Chinese Affairs.
* As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1924.
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